http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/Recent content in Blogs on ScreamingPigeonHugoen-usThu, 02 Jul 2026 09:35:33 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/capacitor/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:35:33 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/capacitor/I have been reading Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert of late. It is a great book that gets into the history of irrigation and water reclamation projects in the American west. I will reference some of the things discussed in that book here, so if you don’t want spoilers, go give it a read first. It’s full of history and economics and politics. The Colorado river is basically just a trickle into the gulf of California now.http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/skyline_panel/Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:10:18 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/skyline_panel/The SKYLINE workshop at ISCA 2026 assembled a panel of researchers - Amir from Google DeepMind, Joseph Torellas from UIUC, Jovan Stojkovic from UT Austin and Meta, Chaojie Zhang from Microsoft Azure Research, and Benjamin C. Lee from UPenn and Google to chat about the evolving landscape of cloud-native architectures, agentic AI, and the fundamental redesign of systems from the ground up. Here is my transcript from the talk. Amir: Self refinement is something we really need to talk about.http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/spring_break_2026/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:13 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/spring_break_2026/Hello! I return to the blog about 2 weeks later than I should be. I will be serving my (nonexistent???) readers with some more low-vocabulary slop. As an attempt to half-ass my new year resolution of writing a blog post every month - I will be uploading pictures from my trip to New England and NYC with some blurbs. Why? Because it is easier than writing something interesting. Boston This is by the state street stop on the red line - pretty much the heart of downtown Boston.http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/books2025/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:38:04 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/books2025/Books I read in 2025 One of my resolutions for this year is to write more. So far, I have done a shitty job holding myself up to that. I have been having a hard time coming up with something to write about. Naturally, commenting on writing is much easier than writing something original. So here are my thoughts on some of the books I read in 2025. February Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky This was the first book (novella?http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/flush_reload/Tue, 06 May 2025 15:09:05 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/flush_reload/Intro Last November, I got the chance to meet Daniel Genkin - at the Midwest Security Workshop. He is one of the authors/discoveres of SPECTRE and MELTDOWN , some of the most critical vulnerabilities discovered in the last decade. These were also unpatchable due to them being hardware vulnerabilities. Bumping into Daniel was a happy coincidence for me. I was aware that MSW had a section on HW Security (which is why I went in the first place) - but I never knew that such an epic security researcher was going to be there.http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/supermicrosummit24/Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:55:40 -0500http://screamingpigeon.net/blog/supermicrosummit24/Super Micro Open Stroage Summit 2024 https://www.thecube.net/events/supermicro/open-storage-summit-2024 I attended the last 2 events at this stummit. Here are my thoughts and notes: The New High Performance Computing: Optimized Storage from HPC to AI Speakers: Randy Kreiser Supermicro CJ Newburn NVIDIA Balaji Venkateshwaran DDN Bill Panos Solidigm CJ- The moderator looks like he is being held at gunpoint. Rate at which usage models are changing need for new infrastructure new models characterized by large scale and making memory accesses of fine granularity